CircleCI gives you 30 minutes of playtime on a 32 cores, 60GB RAM VM.
All you have to do is log in with GitHub, start a build of any of your public repo & click "Rebuild with SSH".
(No affiliations, I just find this mind blowing)
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#52Is this from Diply? It uses the same logo font and everything.
That is the Pattaya font on Dply, which itself is a version of Lobster, which was/is a very popular font for Logos and websites. You will be very busy if you accuse every project which uses Lobster to be a ripoff of Diply. What do you mean with "everything"? The use of the color blue?
How do you not see the similarity between "Diply" and "dply" that uses the identical font and a similar color...
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can I make another free server immediately afterwards? What's your anti-abuse policy/process?
As a free service we will pretty strictly enforce abuse reports and take action on them. We're using a few methods to profile users based on their github account/ssh key and other factors to block abusers once their identified. Dply servers are blocked from using SMTP ports to prevent spam. Yes. You can create another server once the first expires but automating this process is not allowed and therefore we do not pro…
Are you saying one can / can't spin up a free two-hour server more than once?
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#54Is the paid version supposed to work yet? I just tried to create a 2 day instance and clicking the "pay with card" button doesn't do anything. On a related note, does anyone know a good way to pay USD for things like this with a foreign (e.g. UK) bank account. If I use my UK VISA I get stung by my bank's criminal conversion change/rate. This is rarely something I need to do but it has arisen a few times now.
There are a number of UK credit cards offering 0 fee payments overseas(Aqua, Post Office, I think AMEX). There is also a credit card from Halifax offering a good deal on withdrawals, but apparently, it's hard to get. In addition to that, there are a number of companies offering prepaid cards such as Revolut and another one which I can't remember now.
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#55CircleCI gives you 30 minutes of playtime on a 32 cores, 60GB RAM VM. All you have to do is log in with GitHub, start a build of any of your public repo & click "Rebuild with SSH". (No affiliations, I just find this mind blowing)
Great tidbit. Perhaps it's just not well known.
Edit: Multiple machines if your build is in parallel. Nice.
> Parallelism and SSH Builds
> If your build has parallel steps, we launch more than one VM to perform them. Thus, you’ll see more than one ‘Enable SSH’ and ‘Wait for SSH’ section in the build output.
[1]: https://circleci.com/docs/ssh-build/#parallelism-and-ssh-bui...
Re: Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers
#56Is the paid version supposed to work yet? I just tried to create a 2 day instance and clicking the "pay with card" button doesn't do anything. On a related note, does anyone know a good way to pay USD for things like this with a foreign (e.g. UK) bank account. If I use my UK VISA I get stung by my bank's criminal conversion change/rate. This is rarely something I need to do but it has arisen a few times now.
Is it a debit card? My credit card doesn't charge any extra fees for international transactions run in the local currency. Some shady merchants will try to claim they have to run in USD or can't take a US credit card but so far I've always been able to insist when abroad.
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#57Really wanted to give this a go but unfortunately when I try and create a server it doesn't do anything, just refreshes to the main dashboard. No error or any other detail is shown. But overall nice idea, would probably use it to provide demos of a script / project for a fixed 2 hour window.
ok, seems to be fixed now... it's simple, and effective.
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#58Nice service! I could see this being really useful for web scraping or for offloading compilation. (Or any relatively short computation, really.) I caught a bit of an awkward sentence on the FAQ though: "Unless specifically specified otherwise.." Just "specified" will do :)
Wouldn't web scraping be considered abusive usage as it is frowned upon by most websites?
There are plenty of ways to scrape responsibly.
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#59This is a project I've been working on for a while. Dply allows you to quickly create a temporary cloud server (1CPU/512MB RAM/20GB SSD) for free. You can have one free server running at any time. Log in with your Github account and it will allow you to create your server using your Github ssh-key. Servers are free for 2 hours and expire after that time (unless you choose to add more time via credit card or bitcoin).…
Suggestion, after the server successfully created, show the command that they can execute to access the server (ssh root@, with being replaced with the real ip).
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#60Great. Free VPN on demand :)